Life of Jesus

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It's Pilat in all Slavic languages.

Yeah, that's a really weird way to spell "centaurs."

[facepalm] Being Jewish, I would hope you would get a good score.

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Ha ha! Kalbahamut is triggered! It's now official! Our strategy of just insulting him for not being a Christian has worked! Why bother having a calm, rational discussion over the existence of God and/or Jesus and think to ourselves that maybe not everything we've been told is true, when we can just hurl insults at people who've made us angry and try to make them get angry? That's the way to win! Works every time!

Wait a minute...

Where was I triggered?

It's used in different ways in different contexts. It's true that we use "holiday" to mean all of those things, but we don't (usually) use it to mean a vacation (we say someone who is out of the office is "on vacation" not "on holiday", for example). A "festival" is more likely to refer to a specific thing, like "The 33rd Annual Vegan Hot Dog Eating Contest in Perapsyapuke, Vermont", and not "Christmas" or "Labor Day."

We'd say "Official Holiday" or something similar when we mean specifically a day recognized by an authority that generally excuses work or school. It's not universal, but federal holidays are influential--but each employer will have its holidays (or not) and generally isn't required to give people time off for holidays, official or not (but it's common).

But it really depends on context. If I say "Is Palm Sunday a holiday?" I'm usually asking "Do you (or I) get it off work?" But I won't blink an eye at, say, Rosh Hoshannah being described as a holiday.

you know there are lighter skinned people in the Levant right

huh? I've never been a fan of Norm, so I don't know if the context would help this joke make any more sense than it does here, but out of context... wha?? Atheists believe in no gods. When they respond to theists, then the conversation becomes about specific gods. Maybe he should have said the problem with theists is that when they talk to anyone with beliefs different from their own they always have to make everything about themselves and their own specific beliefs? ...that would make sense.

Keep it simple. You almost never have to include titles on this site.

Maybe not quite that high; though Jews, atheists and agnostics tend to score better on Christian trivia than Christians, anyway. The U.S. population is about 70% Christian.

I disagree that all of the questions are very easy, 16/22 doesn't surprise me. There are several specific place- and person-names that would escape a non-enthusiast's memory, I think, even if they're substantially familiar with the story.